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2 – 25th of November
Predictions of the Earth - On ecological thinking and practice
The group exhibition "Predictions of the Earth - On ecological thinking and practice" will take place at the Romanian Cultural Institute in London from November 2nd to 25th 2022. A selection of contemporary Romanian artists approaches, in their own vision and through different artistic techniques, the ecological challenges of the last decades, a major, perpetual topic of actuality.
The exhibition project was initiated by the Cotroceni National Museum, being presented in Bucharest between September 14th and October 24th 2021. In 2022, the Cotroceni National Museum toured the exhibition in Paris and Luxembourg, with the support of the RCI.
The curator of the exhibition, Mihai Zgondoiu, brought together a series of Romanian artists who will be present in the spaces of the RCI London with visuals of their own perspectives and reflections on various fragile points in terms of ecology. The exhibition "Predictions of the Earth - On ecological thinking and practice" includes photographs, video-art, installations, object-sculpture and illustrations, in an eclectic aesthetic approach, conceived as a laboratory of knowledge and inquiries concerning the future of our planet.
The opening of the exhibition will take place on November 2nd at 6:30 p.m., in the presence of artists Mihai Zgondoiu, Bogdan Rața and Cosmin Paulescu. The event organized by RCI London will be open to the general public from November 2nd to 25th.
As contemporary environmental challenges, with potentially irreversible consequences for the planet and humanity, operate both in times of peace and times of war, the event will also mark the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict (November 6). Thus, the RCI London seeks to ring the alarm regarding irresponsible human impact on the environment, as well as the attempt to make protection of nature a priority.
Book your ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/earth-predictions-about-ecological-thinking-and-practice-tickets-453851129947?fbclid=IwAR3Jv6XmiToAdDEJl6HEsjPtnpf2hRlWycfrIfmIgVX_3_bL-VuWi9bN5dI
3rd of November
THE ENESCU CONCERT SERIES – Remus Azoitei and Eduard Stan
The November concert in the 'Enescu Concerts' series offers an exceptional encounter with two brilliant Romanian musicians, Remus Azoiței (violin) and Eduard Stan (piano), the supreme experts in George Enescu's chamber work. With a programme that highlights the manifold connections between Romanian and European classical music, the duo’s hypnotic presence will prove once more why they are considered to have established the golden standard of Enescu’s interpretation.
Programme:
- F. Kreisler: Praeludium & Allegro
- L. van Beethoven: Romance in F Major, op. 50
- G. Enescu: Sonata no. 2 in F minor, op. 6
- B. Bartok: Romanian Folk Dances
- Viorel Munteanu: Brancusi's "Fauraria" (2021)
- W. A. Mozart: Sonata in E minor, KV304
- P. Sarasate: ‘Carmen’ Fantasy
Book your ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/illustrious-performers-remus-azoitei-and-eduard-stan-in-the-enescu-concerts-tickets-443391314357
4th of November
THE MUSIC OF COSMOS
We are delighted to invite you to an evening of grace and flight, Friday, the 4th of November, at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, where Romanian cosmonaut Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu and Italian pianist Elena Piccione will soar through THE MUSIC OF COSMOS.
An event organized by The Romanian Cultural Institute in London in association with Art In Conversation.
This event aims to express a cultural conjunction of Bachian compositional chords and the existential, not so much technical, experience of cosmic flights. Both basically reveal the same eternal human longing: the sublimation of the earthly, limited human condition through cosmic transcendence, the aspiration of a higher spiritual essence.
For this purpose, we will engage in a dialogue with the guests, intertwined by a selection of Bach’s pieces, under the magical NASA projections on the Observatory’s cupola. A spectacle of lights, music and thought, followed by 30 minutes of Q&A.
A limited amount of free tickets can be booked by sending an e-mail to office@icr-london.co.uk
For more info and to book a ticket:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-music-of-cosmos-tickets-444493892197?aff=ebdssbdestsearch&fbclid=IwAR2oWEKVJklEzEysoKAnnLQNbTywdwci7_T8KOoOY_e2aCUhSgw6YtIV-nU
14 – 25th of November
Romanian Jewish Heritage - A Journey in Time
The Romanian Cultural Institute in London is presenting the exhibition “Romanian Heritage – A Journey in Time” by Beverley-Jane Stewart, between 14 – 25.11 2022.
The exhibition includes paintings, etchings and collages of Romanian landscapes and historical events. Foreign landscapes, ancient structures alongside modern high-rise towers, synagogue interiors, sloped mountain villages leading down to a blue lagoon with big sailboats and scenes that seem to be from illuminated manuscripts. The Romanian landscape is spread out before us, with the cities and towns that Beverley-Jane Stewart visited and documented for three years. In her various draftsman like paintings, time seems to have stood still, and yet she succeeds to create a connection between past and present Romanian events, weaving between local secular and Jewish religious history, family sagas and Yiddish cultural history.
Curated by Vera Pilpou
15th of November
RESCHEDULE Inauguration of the "Romanian-British diplomacy, from one era to another." Series
I: The destiny of an Ambassador: Viorel Tilea
The "Romanian-British Diplomacy, from one era to another" Series in short:
Former British and Irish diplomats who were stationed at the Embassies of Great Britain and Ireland respectively in Bucharest or at one of their General Consulates in Romania or of Romania are invited to share, in front of the RCI London audience, their memories of Romanian culture, history and realities, as they experienced them during their stay in Romania or Great Britain. 
The protagonist of this series will be Viorel-Virgil Tilea (April 6, 1896, Sibiu – September 20, 1972, London), the Romanian ambassador in London between 1938 and 1940. After the establishment of the Antonescu regime he refused to return
to the country and requested political asylum in England.
He was the first head of the Romanian Legation in London who worked and lived in the prestigious building located at 1 Belgrave Square. Today, the building houses the diplomatic representation premises of the Romanian Embassy and the headquarters of the Romanian Cultural Institute. In 2009, the diplomatic protocol lounge of the Embassy and also the former office of Viorel Tilea, became "The V. V. Tilea Room" (Salonul V. V. Tilea). In accordance with the wish expressed in his will, his memoirs of the mission in London were published by his family.
His life and work will be evoked by Peter Harrap, a British-Romanian artist and curator, and the great-grandson of Viorel Tilea. He lives and works in John Constable's studio in Brighton and is a researcher at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL. His exhibitions include: 'Beyond other horizons' British Council/Romanian Cultural Institute, 2020 marking the centenary of the birth of Paul Celan, 'Constable and Brighton: Something out of Nothing' 2017, Brighton Museum and 'No New Thing Under the Sun ', Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2010. Peter Harrap is also the owner of a large documentary archive inherited from his great-grandfather Viorel Tilea.
26th of November
RESCHEDULE Desire Avenue – Fashion Show
London Fashion Week festival took place between September 16 – 20th, this being one of the four big fashion festivals in the world, along with Paris, New York and Milan. In this context, RCI London aimed to offer to the Romanian designers established in the capital of Great Britain, and not only, a platform to exhibit their creations with the objective that in the future these events might be included in the London Fashion Week program.
Thus, together with the Embassy of Romania to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, RCI London will host a fashion show on September 24th, during which we want to highlight the creations of the Romanian designers Laura Cazacu and Andreea Haise, established now in the UK, where they co-founded the fashion brand Desire Avenue.
30th of November – 15th of January
355 Years of Romanian realities in the British Press
Part of Romania’s National Day celebrations, this exhibition is a captivating journey through history, capturing pieces of news and images about the Romanian space, people and events as they were echoed in the British newspapers during the last 355 years.
Curated by Lia Brad Chisacof